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IMAGES OF MERSEA
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Flour fights at Mersea Regatta
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Growing old gracefully. |
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The Old City |
Coast Road cottages at high tide. |
Horse Chestnuts
in Empress
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Evening light over the Anchorage |
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View over Feldy Marsh from
St Botolph's Cottages
The Lane
spring
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Beach Road
leading down to the sea
with "The Boathouse"
in the distance
This house has since
been demolished and
rebuilt in similar style
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Cottages at The Nothe (The North) in winter
One of the oldest parts of Mersea
situated at the far western end of the island
on a footpath heading north towards The Strood
This location used to be a Coopers yard
(for making barrells) and was once called "Coopers Quay"
The cottages are reputedly made of ships timberwreck
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East Road
looking west
showing the
kitchen garden wall
of Brierly Hall
Brierly is a listed building
circa 1800
it was once called
Leakeys Hall |
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winter snow
Mersea Beach
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spring at
Peartree Cottages
East Road
These cottages are listed
circa 1741 |
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cottage garden in Mersea
an entry in the Mersea in Bloom
"Best Front Gardens" contest
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Hollyhocks - Mersea
Hollyhocks thrive in the
sheltered warmth of
The Lane |
Top of
Monkey
Steps
Coast
Road
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How not to attempt
to cross
The Strood
at High Tide |
St Botolph's Cottages
overlooking Feldy
off The Lane |
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Primrose
Cottage
The
Square
Coast
Road |
Flora
who sits in
the Sensory Garden
Barfield Road |
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Cherry blossom
in Churchfields
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Front wall of
cottages known as
The Square
Coast Road |
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Little Egret
and Curlew Sandpiper |
Cormorants
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| Oystercatchers |
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Brent Geese
migrate to the estuary
in autumn |
Dabchick or
Little Grebe |
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Mersea from the air
showing the far west
of the island |
Mersea from
the air
The Strood divides
to east and west
standing out
clearly the two
Fishing lakes
on Wellhouse Hill |
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A Mersea Cottage
in The Square
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Dabchicks
sailing Cadets
setting off
for Salcott Creek
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yet another
Mersea sunset
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Bocking Hall
one of the oldest
farms on Mersea
originally a "manor"
of mersea in its own right
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grey seals can sometimes
be seen in the Pyefleet
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| Firs Chase |
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the working harbour at Mersea |
The gardens of
The Square - Coast Road
showing the "other side"
of the Barometer |
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Barges at rest - Heybridge Basin
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| dabchicks sailing club |
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Smacks off Heybridge Lock
lining up for a race
round Osea Island |
| beach cabins at Seaview |
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upside down boats |
Fishing Smack
"Mermaid"
pictured
below
The Dredging Match
2011 |
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Dredging for oysters |
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jetty off "The Firs" caravan site |
Mersea
allotments
East Road |
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| oysters to go |
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wind turbines |
| windsurfers |
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West Mersea Town Council
10 Melrose Road
West Mersea
Colchester
Essex, CO5 8JD
Telephone and Fax 01206 382128
E-mail: westmerseatc@aol.com |
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